Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign asked the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office on Tuesday to investigate how Mother Jones magazine obtained a recording of a February strategy session.

“Senator McConnell’s campaign is working with the FBI and has notified the local U.S. Attorney in Louisville, per FBI request, about these recordings,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a statement. “Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell’s campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation.”

Added a source close to the campaign: “We’re going on the assumption that a crime has been committed. No one at the meeting leaked this.”

While I do not condone what may have been Watergate-style bugging, it seems that said bugging revealed just how low Mr. Scared-Chipmunk-Obstructionist-Man's campaign was willing to go:

"She's clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it's been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she's suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the '90s."

Yeah. Don't attack her as being someone far far left on most issues, completely inexperienced politically, makes insane statements about people who buy Apple products, etc. Attack her for having severe depression. And seriously, not only is she depressed, she isn't a real Christian!

"Anyhow I know this is sort of a sensitive subject but you know at least worth putting on your radar screen is that she is critical…[inaudible] sort of traditional Christianity. She sort of views it as sort of a vestige of patriarchy. She says Christianity gives a God like a man, presented and discussed exclusively with male imagery which legitimizes and seals male power, the intention to dominate even if that intention is nowhere visible."

While I do not condone what may have been Watergate-style bugging, it seems that said bugging revealed just how low Mr. Scared-Chipmunk-Obstructionist-Man's campaign was willing to go:

"She's clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it's been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she's suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the '90s."

Yeah. Don't attack her as being someone far far left on most issues, completely inexperienced politically, makes insane statements about people who buy Apple products, etc. Attack her for having severe depression. And seriously, not only is she depressed, she isn't a real Christian!

"Anyhow I know this is sort of a sensitive subject but you know at least worth putting on your radar screen is that she is critical…[inaudible] sort of traditional Christianity. She sort of views it as sort of a vestige of patriarchy. She says Christianity gives a God like a man, presented and discussed exclusively with male imagery which legitimizes and seals male power, the intention to dominate even if that intention is nowhere visible."

Keep it classy, moral right. Keep it classy.

Reading from her own autobiography is not classy?

Oh, that's right. She's a progressive. Progressives can do anything without consequence. like Jerry Brown.

Mother Jones probably doesn't want to burn their source, so I wouldn't expect them to name names. But regardless there are many ways to get a recording without using a bug. Most phones have a record function, for example. I think McConnell's office are being a bunch drama queens by leaping straight into conspiracy land.

The operative word was "attack." Now reread my post with that in mind.

Attack? Come on. He's reading from her own biography. That's not an attack. That's the same as if she said, oh, 47 percent of the people get government stuff. Now, calling your republican opponent a wh0re, that's an attack.

face it, this is much ado about nothing, as everything in the recording is admitted by Judd.

THere is nothing to worry at all about this. IT's nothing like Watergate. In the case of Watergate, it was Republican operatives bugging Democrats and breaking into their office.

In this case it is a Democrap operative perhaps doing the same thing to a Repblican. So obviously there is no concern here for anyone. The liberals know what is best for us and if breaking into a Republicans office or illegally taping them is best for us then we damned well better accept it.

This wasn't a book club. This was a brain-storming session on how to politically attack her if she ran.

That information that she was depressed and suicidal in the past is in a book doesn't mean it isn't low as hell to attack her based on that.

Especially with all the other low-hanging fruit.

How could they be "attacking her on that", when they were talking confidentially. This is what campaign operatives do, they look through possible issues to raise. It is not "low" to bring up all possible issues confidentially in a private campaign discussion.

"While I do not condone what may have been Watergate-style bugging, it seems that said bugging revealed just how low Mr. Scared-Chipmunk-Obstructionist-Man's campaign was willing to go":

Bullcrap. It is only logical to discuss in a campaign strategy meeting, all possible issues.

One can only imagine what a David Axelrod confidential campaign discussion on how to personally attack Mitt Romney, might sound like. Mother Jones wouldnt need to record it, because David Corn is one of their operatives, pure and simple...he admitted he held the Romney 47% tape until releasing would do the most damage...

This wasn't a book club. This was a brain-storming session on how to politically attack her if she ran.

That information that she was depressed and suicidal in the past is in a book doesn't mean it isn't low as hell to attack her based on that.

Especially with all the other low-hanging fruit.

How could they be "attacking her on that", when they were talking confidentially. This is what campaign operatives do, they look through possible issues to raise. It is not "low" to bring up all possible issues confidentially in a private campaign discussion.

"While I do not condone what may have been Watergate-style bugging, it seems that said bugging revealed just how low Mr. Scared-Chipmunk-Obstructionist-Man's campaign was willing to go":

Bullcrap. It is only logical to discuss in a campaign strategy meeting, all possible issues.

One can only imagine what a David Axelrod confidential campaign discussion on how to personally attack Mitt Romney, might sound like. Mother Jones wouldnt need to record it, because David Corn is one of their operatives, pure and simple...he admitted he held the Romney 47% tape until releasing would do the most damage...